I have recently been reading an excellent book by Matt Mason titled The Pirate’s Dilemma. This book talks about how youth culture is reinventing capitalism.The book is very well written and researched. The core theme behind the book is how the culture of piracy (that’s you and me) causes change in the capitalist world. While…
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How Digg fought spammers and increased page views in one fell swoop
Back on September 19, 2007 Digg launched a new profile system. The idea was to put a little more social into the Digg system. Some people liked the changes while others did not.A common thought at the time was that Digg made the changes to increase its Page View metric. This thought is based on…
The Digg Facelift – 1 week later
Back on September 19, 2007 the Digg blog posted an article by Kevin Rose in which he told the Digg community that some changes were coming. These changes were going to be in the area of Digg profiles.Later that same evening Digg went down for maintenance and when the site came back up more than…